Carbon storage public register

Regulation 9 of the Storage of Carbon Dioxide (Licensing etc.) Regulations 2010 requires that a public register is established and maintained containing information regarding the storage permits granted and a permanent register of all closed storage sites and surrounding storage complexes, including maps and sections of their spatial extent and available information relevant for assessing that the stored CO2 will be completely and permanently contained.

Section 29 of the Energy Act provides that the NSTA must maintain a register containing prescribed information relating to licences. The Act sets out a number of exemptions to information being provided such as information that would be contrary to the interests of national security.

Contents of the register

It is important that the register provides as much information as possible on a storage development and should contain all the items listed below:

1.  a copy of the licence, which will show: name and address of the licence holders and the operator; the appraisal term (during which the storage permit must be applied for); licence assignments if any; whether the licence has been revoked or relinquished; The Crown Estate lease number.
   
   
2. a copy of the storage permit, which will show: the injection period (the operational term); the committed volume of CO₂ to be stored over the operational term; the permitted composition of the CO₂ to be injected; maps showing the extent of the storage site and the storage complex; the approved monitoring plan (including updated monitoring plans); the approved corrective measures plan; the approved provisional post closure plan; the composition of the financial security
   
   
3. estimates of the total volume of storage capacity for carbon dioxide available in the storage site.
   
   
4. notices served by the competent authority.
   
   
5. details of significant irregularities or leakage events and remedial actions.
   
   
6. copies of all other reports to the competent authority.

For full details see: The Public Register